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The original question may as well have been, "Do you live in fear of your wife?"
For what other reason would you hide purchases from your best friend, if not for the worry of whether the next strike of the frying pan is 'really' going to hurt?
Are we not men anymore?
So in answer to the question, YES I do hide my camera purchases from the wife.
I traded my wife in. I did not get much for her, but the new models are terrific. Younger, lower mileage, lower maintenance, lighter, more enjoyable ... best decision I every made. I never had a problem since for spending money on cameras, lenses ... Life is good and I am happy.
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Posted by marcaractac
on 11 April 2015 - 09:08 PM
Babcock said Marchenko will play in Game 1 of playoffs.
I'm guessing Smith is the odd man out.
Posted by Ram
on 11 April 2015 - 06:43 PM
Awesome that Helm is rocking the A
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on 06 April 2015 - 05:56 AM
Posted by LeftWinger
on 03 April 2015 - 12:27 PM
..and tell me again, when Stevie was near the end, how many times we either had to scratch and claw to just make the playoffs or were in danger of backing our way out of the playoffs? Let alone tell me when Stevie would have sat because of an injury that he couldn't just "ice up" and play, especially when it comes down to two of the most important games of the year which would have more than likely secured the playoffs. I am not questioning Dats contributions to this team or his ability to still be an impact player. I am questioning the entire leadership philosophy of this team, starting with him. Z says he's 100%, so why are we to believe that he isn't? He just is what he is anymore, more than a shell, but nowhere near what he was 5-6 years ago, but hey, he is older and not as good anymore. The problem is, these "leaders" today will even sit out a playoff game with nagging injuries, even elimination games, Stevie, Shanny, Hull, Feds, Igor, Nick would have NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER done so.
Disrespect my ass, the fact is, he makes $7M tof****** take this team to the playoffs, not sit because his ankle hurts, again, THEY MAKE SHOTS THAT TAKE CARE OF NAGGING PAINS!!! If his ankle was broken, I understand, but a sore ankle? Gimme a break! In my job, I am working in small places lifting and throwing things all day long, if my back hurts do I get time off? NO! I get to take 2 alieve and get the f*** back in the hole!
This isn't December anymore, these games are pretty much game 6's and 7's for us, this team needs leadership to lead! All this blaming Jimmy and Petr is stupid, Petr played well enough last night to win, he had 1 bad goal, but the D (Q especially) let him down in the end. Even Patrick had bad goals against him, even Hasek. Itsf****** time for the leaders to inspire this team, if keeping this streak alive isn't important to the leaders of this team, to keep history going, to keep this organization talked about among the elite teams off al time, thenf****** retire and let other players who want to preserve history and keep this team excelling take over! Sure, 1st round exits suck, and no way this team is favored to win a Cup this year, but you have to get to round 1 in order to have a chance....f*** letting the streak go, if this team cannot win a Cup every year, then damn it, isn't it important enough to have something to brag and be proud of? The streak is on the line, if they miss this year, they will never get anywhere near it again. I want to Cup too, but if we can't win it, why just say f*** the playoffs? Those of you who don't care about making the playoffs year after year will never be happy, because for you its the Cup or tank.
I will take a first round sweep over completely missing the playoffs.
Posted by LeftWinger
on 02 April 2015 - 11:00 PM
Ugh....I truly believe I am watching the worst hockey played in Detroit since 1989... Still plenty of games left to stay in the playoffs, but these two games would have solidified or at least made it VERY hard to fall out...
...I am very disappointed in the leadership on this team. You got Drew Miller who was nearly sliced in half playing with his heart on his sleeve and we cannot even get our leaders to play with a sore shoulder. Z just looks gassed, he cannot even play an entire game anymore. D is atrocious...really, Q absolutely took the wind out of the sail tonight. Sure it was a cheap call, but you knew the refs were looking to give Boston a PP and he should have known to not even give them anything to look at...then the 2nd goal, WTF was Q doing? Watching the puck and not paying attention to the player behind him.
All in all, the team started out great! Huge pressure, goal post, forcing turnovers, making plays....then the 3rd came. Ugh...
Petr was the first star all game long until the s***astic go ahead goal. I love ya Petr, and I am sure Jimmy would've given up more goals all game long, but that last goal was a gimme...oh well, should've never had to come down to one bad goal, team should've put Boston away earlier...
Still....WTF is the use of Pulk in the middle on the PP? He is in the middle of 4 defenders, how the f*** is he going to get a shot off from there? We ALL know where he should be on the PP, but NO! They put Z there all night!
If Dats isn't in against Minny, then f*** him, go on LTIR....boo hoo my shoulder hurts, mother f*****, Drew Miller almost got scalped and he played and played very well! Suck it up Pav! This team needs you to lead by example, if you don't give a s***, why should they?
Posted by Wheelchairsuperhero
on 26 March 2015 - 08:48 PM
helm is horrible....sorry, it's true.
Posted by PenaltyShot 96
on 26 March 2015 - 08:18 PM
The Hamburlar got pulled as well. Rangers up 5-1
Posted by LeftWinger
on 21 March 2015 - 08:06 AM
Wait, What? Our top pair d-men are bad? Well according to Babcock, Ericsson is our top line pairing guy. Guess we cannot argue that then, can we? IMO, neither Ericsson nor Kronwall are legit top pairing guys. Kronwall has no balls anymore, he needs to go back to being the Kronwaller than makes him effective, not this soft piece of jelly donut he has turned into. Ericsson is, will and never was a top pairing guy, it is still of my opinion, he could disappear today and Marchenko could step right into the lineup and Ericsson would not even be missed. But I digress, because Babcock is "The Man" with the best hockey knowledge out there and knows how to put lines together in order to guarantee the best results! Sure had to love that Tatar-Andersson- Pukkinen line the last couple of games, what an insult to Tats and Pulkks...
Posted by DRW Dominance
on 14 March 2015 - 02:02 PM
you need your team to get out of any funk......play Detroit....
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on 14 March 2015 - 01:37 PM
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on 14 March 2015 - 01:28 PM
Posted by DatsyukianDekes
on 09 March 2015 - 05:59 PM
Weiss out = good thing. He brings nothing to this team sorry to say. He's slow doesn't have a shot no moves no speed no strength stinks on pp can't pk what's he getting 5m for???
Weiss out = good thing. He brings nothing to this team sorry to say. He's slow doesn't have a shot no moves no speed no strength stinks on pp can't pk what's he getting 5m for???
Where was this when he was helping win us games when he scored 13 points in 17 games? Oh yea, exactly. Small sample sizes around here.
Posted by DatsyukianDekes
on 18 February 2015 - 10:40 PM
Marchenko had another solid game. Really impressed by him so far.
Posted by Wheelchairsuperhero
on 06 January 2015 - 11:45 PM
Posted by Dabura
on 29 December 2014 - 09:53 PM
Clown shoes on a drunk baby giraffe. That's all I've got.
It was boys amongst men out there. I don't even want to know if Lucic and Bergeron were in the line up. That was terrible. Boy this team just doesn't look good right now.
It was boys amongst men out there. I don't even want to know if Lucic and Bergeron were in the line up. That was terrible. Boy this team just doesn't look good right now.
Had Lucic and Bergeron been in the lineup, the Wings probably would've won. This is how it tends to work with the Wings.
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Benched! Chuck Grassley's three nonsense excuses for stalling judicial confirmations
The Senate confirmed its first appeals court judge of the year last night, unanimously approving Kara Farnandez Stoll for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Stoll waited more than two months on the Senate floor for a vote, enduring needless delay that has become the norm under Republican leadership. More than six months into 2015, the Senate has confirmed only five judges, and four of them were district court nominees selected and recommended by their own Republican senators. By comparison, during the penultimate year of President George W. Bush's administration in 2007, Senate Democrats had confirmed 25 judges by July 9.
In floor speeches before the vote yesterday, Senate Democrats hammered Republicans for the confirmation slowdown. Minority Leader Harry Reid said that confirming only one circuit court nominee so far is an "embarrassment," and accused Senate Republicans of "failing in their basic constitutional responsibility to provide advise and consent" on judges. "The Republican Leader [Mitch McConnell] and his party are on pace to confirm the fewest judicial nominations in half a century," Reid noted. It's actually even worse: the Senate hasn't confirmed 10 or fewer judges since 1953.
In response, Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley lamely defended the pace of confirmations in written remarks, asserting that "there shouldn't be any complaining about following the same standard we did in 2007." Grassley supported his view with three well-worn talking points that do not survive even the most cursory review. Yet they are worth refuting here, if only because they are commonly given to reporters covering Senate confirmations. It's time to set the record straight once and for all.
Let's take each point in turn.
- Grassley's first argument is based on a meaningless comparison of raw confirmation totals. He pointed out that President Obama has had 312 judges confirmed, while at this same point in 2007 President Bush had only 279. "That's 33 more judicial nominees confirmed" for Obama, Grassley said, "[s]o, this president and his judicial nominees are being treated as fairly, if not more fairly, than the last president." The problem is that Obama's higher confirmations are explained by the higher number of judicial vacancies he has had to fill, not by preferential treatment in the Senate. At this point in their respective presidencies, Obama has faced 47 more vacancies than did Bush, which means that, with only 33 more confirmed, Obama's confirmations are actually falling behind.
- Next, Grassley defended his own work as chairman, saying "[w]e're . . . moving judicial nominees in [the Judiciary] Committee at about the same pace as we did at this point in President Bush's presidency." On this point, Grassley's sleight of hand is to include both executive and judicial nominees in his numbers. But when the focus is on judges, a discrepancy appears: only 13 judicial nominees have had hearings so far this year, while at this point in 2007 Democratic Chairman Patrick Leahy had convened hearings for 17 nominees. And lest anyone think the committee has been overly burdened with executive nominees, recall that Grassley has gone weeks without a confirmation hearing, and in one instance called a hearing with only two judicial nominees on the witness list.
- Third, Grassley invoked his own fuzzy math argument, claiming credit for the 11 district court judges that Senate Democrats voted out of committee and confirmed during the lame duck session at the end of last year. He claims that, per Senate tradition, these nominees should have been held for confirmation votes under the new Senate majority. He again pointed to confirmations in 2007: "In 2006, the Senate returned 13 judicial nominees to the President. Those nominees were then re-nominated in 2007, and confirmed in the new Congress. Had Democrats followed standard Senate practice, we would've voted on those 11 nominees at the beginning of this year[.]"
But what Grassley refers to as "standard Senate practice" was in fact nothing more than the obstruction of a single Republican senator. At the end of 2006, Republican Senator Sam Brownback blocked a vote on district court nominee Janet Neff because she once attended, as a guest of longtime neighbors, a same-sex civil commitment ceremony. As The New York Times reported at the time, Brownback's objection, not "Senate practice," was the only reason nominees were returned to the president: "Judge Neff's nomination was included in a package of more than a dozen nominees whose confirmation had been agreed upon by both Democrats and Republicans. Mr. Brownback's objections held up the whole roster of nominees."
And that's it. These are the best reasons Republicans can muster to explain why, under their watch, judicial confirmations are headed toward historical lows. It's obvious that Senate Republicans are intentionally keeping our federal courts understaffed, delaying justice for Americans all across the country, to preserve as many vacancies as possible for what they hope is a future Republican president. Their talking points to the contrary are mere pretext to disguise a purely partisan agenda, and they should be called on it.
Rallying to Restore the Voting Rights Act
On June 25, 2013, in its notorious decision Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court dismantled the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important and effective civil rights laws in our nation's history.
The pending Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA) would help restore some of the voting protections that were lost in Shelby County, but, despite its bipartisan support, Republican leadership has balked at moving it forward. So on June 25 of this year, precisely two years after Shelby County was decided, hundreds of activists from dozens of organizations joined together near the Roanoke, Va., office of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., to demand full restoration of the Voting Rights Act. Among those at the "Rally for Voting Rights and Our Democracy" was Alliance for Justice summer associate Blake Paradis, who recounts her experience below.
At 7:00 a.m., I arrived at Union Station to find four busloads of activists ready to revive the Voting Rights Act. Organized by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, groups representing the span of environmental, labor, civil rights, and others shared stories, practiced chants, and connected over the course of a four-hour bus ride. Although we represented groups with different constituencies and different priorities, everyone was committed to restoring the essential voter protections that the Supreme Court cast aside in Shelby County.
Upon arriving in Roanoke, we were warmly greeted with cheers and applause from locals thanking us for our support. Speakers at the rally described the significance of democracy for all of our initiatives and pushed us to engage our communities. Looking at the vast diversity among us, it was hard not to feel inspired. Media stations from around the country covered the rally, from social media and local news to the Ed Show on MSNBC, media outlets displayed our call to restore the Voting Rights Act.
Congressman Goodlatte has said that an update to the Voting Rights Act is unnecessary unless new evidence of voter discrimination surfaces, but the activists in Roanoke, congressional leaders, and voters navigating an ever-expanding list of restrictive ballot access laws all know how badly a fix is needed. The day after our rally, Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. introduced a new piece of reform legislation, the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015, with House leaders from the Black Caucus, Hispanic Caucus, and Asian Pacific American Caucus.
After the Supreme Court gutted sections 4 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, Congress began working on the Voting Rights Amendment Act. But it quickly became clear that Republican leadership in Congress would not support an amendment. So instead, Senator Leahy introduced the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015 to provide a more comprehensive set of voter protections than proposed in the VRAA. The new legislation also responds directly to the concerns identified by the Supreme Court in Shelby County. "The previous bill we did in a way to try and get bipartisan support—which we did," Senator Leahy told The Nation. "We had the Republican majority leader of the House [Eric Cantor] promise us that if we kept it like that it would come up for a vote. It never did. . . . So this time I decided to listen to the voters who had their right to vote blocked." The new bill requires the Department of Justice to pre-approve changes to voting laws in states that have had 15 voting violations in the past 25 years, provides greater transparency in elections, and gives federal courts the ability to force states to obtain preclearance if voting changes are found to be discriminatory.
The activists I met in Roanoke have vowed to stay vigilant protecting voters in their communities, and they're not alone. Rallies like the one I attended are expanding all across the country. Momentum is building to restore the VRA. The words Miles Rapoport, president of Common Cause, shared at the event are hitting home to Americans across ideological and political spectrums: "we want to live in a democracy where people select their representation, not one where representatives get to choose who can vote."
GUEST BLOG: Don't panic: The Supreme Court's decision on mercury and air toxics
The Supreme Court's very last decision for the term, Michigan v. EPA, grants a challenge to the the EPA's long overdue limits on toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants by a coalition of power companies, coal mining companies and allied states. In a narrow 5-4 decision, Justice Scalia portrayed the EPA as having unreasonably refused to consider cost when the agency decided that controlling power plants' toxic pollution is "appropriate and necessary."
Some of the petitioners asked the court to vacate the limits – i.e., throw them out altogether. Instead, the court merely remanded the rule to the D.C. Circuit Court for further proceedings consistent with its holding that the EPA should have considered cost. That choice of remedy was important: the rule will save up to 11,000 lives each year, and vacating or blocking it, as some coal mining and power companies requested, would cause thousands of people to die unnecessary premature deaths.
Further litigation in the D.C. Circuit is all but certain. Nothing in the Supreme Court's ruling, however, requires the EPA to withdraw or even change the limits. All the EPA has to do is explain why it believes that limiting power plants' toxic emissions is "appropriate and necessary" when the costs to industry are considered. As Justice Scalia explains, the majority opinion does not require a formal cost benefit analysis and leaves it "up to the agency" to decide "how" cost should be considered.
The EPA can provide the desired analysis quickly because it already has considered the cost to industry and concluded that the costs are vastly outweighed by the public benefits of controlling power plants' pollution. Reducing power plants' emissions of fine particulate matter will save between 4,200 and 11,000 lives every year as well as preventing thousands of non-fatal heart attacks and asthma attacks, and hundreds of thousands of lost work days. The economic value of those health benefits to the public is between $33 billion and $90 billion per year – approximately $3-$9 in public benefits for every $1 in cost to industry. The court did not take issue with any of these findings. Rather, it faulted the EPA for not including them in its justification for the rule.
The majority's reasoning in this decision is disappointing. It is not obvious, as the majority assumed, that Congress intended the EPA to consider cost when it determined whether regulating power plants' toxic emissions was appropriate and necessary. As the dissent points out, it is at least as likely that Congress intended the agency to base that initial decision on public health and environmental concerns and reserve the consideration of cost to a later stage in the regulatory process when the EPA would know what reductions were required. Justice Scalia's comparison of the EPA's careful and reasoned approach to buying a Ferrari without asking the price is not just shallow, but wholly inappropriate for health protections that will save thousands of lives each year.
What matters now, though, is still what mattered when the EPA concluded almost 15 years ago that regulating power plants' toxic emissions is appropriate and necessary. Coal-fired power plants remain the worst of the worst industrial polluters. They still emit more toxic pollution than any other industry and, in the case of some pollutants like mercury and arsenic, as much or more than every other polluting industry combined. Then, as now, mercury from power plants contaminates lakes and rivers across the country and, because they eat the fish in these waters, thousands of American women have enough mercury in their bodies to endanger the health of their nursing infants and unborn babies. Then as now, people die every year from breathing pollution that the power companies could have prevented.
This situation is unnecessary and unacceptable. The good news is that the EPA has gone a long way to fixing it and the Supreme Court's decision, for all its flaws, has not stopped this progress. The Obama administration can satisfy the court's decision and keep the vital health protections that its limits on power plant pollution provide. By doing so, it will secure a great legacy of controlling the worst and longest-lasting air pollution threat that this country faces.
GUEST BLOG: What the King v. Burwell Ruling means for health care consumers
Last Thursday, 6.4 million consumers could breathe a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts in a 6-3 ruling, affirmed that all parts of the Affordable Care Act remain the law of the land. With this latest attack on the health care law resolved, we have reached a turning point for health care reform.
King v. Burwell challenged whether tax credits (subsidies) that reduce the cost of health insurance premiums for lower-and moderate-income consumers could be available across the country or just in states that established their own health insurance marketplaces (exchanges). The Court has now ruled in favor of the government's argument that both the text and intent of the law was to allow tax credits in every state. With this decision, we have hopefully reached an end to the legal wrangling designed to dismantle the law's protections for consumers. Justice Roberts made clear that the ACA can now only be taken away by an act of Congress signed by the President, a scenario that appears unlikely.
The ACA has now survived more than 50 failed attempts by Congress to repeal all or part of the law and two high profile Supreme Court cases. The futility of these attempts to undo the law, as well as the increasing number of Americans benefitting from the law each day, should lead to a decline in the political attacks on the law. Policymakers should move on to continued implementation of the ACA and achieving further gains in improving our health care system.
There are a few key areas in particular that Families USA considers important next steps. They include:
- Closing the Medicaid coverage gap. 21 states have still not expanded the Medicaid program as the ACA envisions. We must work to ensure the 3.7 million people who would benefit from expansion are not left behind.
- Making health care even more affordable. While the ACA made great progress, there is still work to do to improve access to care for people with marketplace coverage. Work is necessary to ensure that out-of-pocket costs, like deductibles, are affordable and that enrollees aren't forced to go out-of-network and face high bills due to inadequate provider networks. In addition, Congressional action is needed to eliminate the "family glitch" that prevents the families of some workers from accessing premium tax credits.
- Addressing health care disparities. Communities of color disproportionately face barriers to high-quality, affordable health care, and some immigrant groups are locked out of the system entirely. We must work to ensure all people have affordable access to high-quality care, translation services, and culturally competent providers and insurers.
- Transforming the health care system. We spend more money on health care than most other industrialized nations, yet do not always get better results. Aligning provider payments with the right incentives, better engaging consumers with their care, designing health insurance benefits that promote high-value care, and ensuring treatments are based on strong evidence will go a long way to improving care quality and reducing health care costs in the United States.
- Maximizing Enrollment in the Marketplaces. Many people are eligible for coverage and for financial assistance but do not know it. More work is needed to enroll the remaining uninsured, especially harder-to-reach populations.
For the millions of Americans whose health insurance hung in the balance, King v. Burwell represented a moment of fear. Celia Maluf is one such consumer. The sixty-year-old Miami woman works three part-time jobs but cannot afford health insurance without the subsidies. For months she worried that the Supreme Court would take away her health care. When the decision finally came down, she expressed a collective sigh of relief and declared: the "nightmare is over." Indeed it is. Now we will move forward, away from attacks on health reform, and towards achieving high-quality, comprehensive, and affordable health care for all Americans.
Ben D'Avanzo is special projects manager and Claire McAndrew is private insurance program director for Families USA.
A new pattern of obstruction as Chuck Grassley delays hearings for long-pending nominees
By Kyle Barry
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Apparently the looming July 4th recess isn't enough for Chuck Grassley to schedule a long-overdue judicial confirmation hearing. Instead, the Judiciary Committee Chairman appears to be guaranteeing at least three consecutive weeks without a confirmation hearing. Such needless delay, so clearly motivated by a partisan desire to obstruct the president's judicial nominees, is never acceptable. But there is a more specific reason for concern: two pending nominees—Mary Barzee Flores for the Southern District of Florida, and Julien Neals for the District of New Jersey—have already waited four months for a hearing, and both are nominated to critical "judicial emergencies" in their home states.
Indeed, Florida and New Jersey are two of the states hit especially hard by the great confirmation slowdown of 2015. The Senate has confirmed only four judges this year; as a result, vacancies nationwide have increased from 43 to 59, and judicial emergencies—the official designation for courts that need more judges to handle their current caseload—have more than doubled, from 12 to 27. New Jersey alone has four new vacancies in 2015 (tied with New York for the most in any state) and all of them are judicial emergencies. There are three pending New Jersey nominees waiting for a hearing, including two (Neals and John Vasquez) nominated before April.
In Florida, Flores has been pending since February to fill a judicial emergency that is more than a year old. Florida also got its second judicial emergency this month when a Middle District seat opened up, and a future Northern District vacancy has been announced for December. With the new vacancies this year, Florida and New Jersey have become two of just six states with multiple judicial emergencies. And yet, Sen. Grassley refuses to take one simple step to address this growing problem: quickly process pending nominees through committee so they can be confirmed.
Flores' nomination also reflects a troubling pattern of obstruction that has emerged under Republican leadership, one in which Republican senators publicly endorse a nominee from their home state, but then do virtually nothing to get them confirmed. We've seen this on the Senate floor where nominees recommended and ostensibly supported by powerful Republican senators like President pro tempore Orrin Hatch of Utah, and Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, were forced to wait months for what was ultimately a unanimous confirmation vote.
In the Judiciary Committee, this obstruction has taken a very specific form for nominees, like Flores, from states with one Republican and one Democratic senator. What's happening with Flores now is precisely what happened—and continues to happen—with Third Circuit nominee L. Felipe Restrepo.
President Obama nominated Restrepo last November based on the joint recommendation of Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. Casey then quickly returned his "blue slip" to the Judiciary Committee, signaling that he endorsed the nomination and that Chairman Grassley could move forward with a hearing. But Toomey did not follow suit. While he continued to express public support for Restrepo, he withheld his blue slip for over six months, enabling Grassley to delay Restrepo's hearing under the pretext of completing a "thorough background investigation." Toomey and Grassley finally buckled under intense public pressure, and Restrepo had a hearing on June 10. But nothing has happened since, and now Toomey looks unwilling to demand that Grassley and the other committee Republicans vote Restrepo onto the Senate floor.
Similarly, Flores was recommended by Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, and Nelson returned his blue slip soon after her nomination. Yet four months later, and despite mounting calls to fill the judicial emergencies in Florida, Rubio has done nothing to ensure that his fellow-Republicans actually move Flores toward confirmation.
With all these hearing delays, Grassley has fallen behind even his own announced pace for processing nominees. Grassley has held himself to "the Leahy standard in 2007," when Senator Patrick Leahy was the committee chairman, and Democrats controlled the Senate under President George W. Bush. But at this point in 2007, Senator Leahy had convened five confirmation hearings for 17 judicial nominees, while only 13 nominees have had hearings this year. This is in addition to the enormous disparity on confirmations—four this year compared to 21 by the end of June in 2007.
The American people know better than to countenance this sort of form-over-substance support for judicial nominees we've seen from Republican leadership and home-state Republican senators. Americans need judges to decide cases and administer justice, not vague assurances that someday—"this year," maybe—they'll have enough judges in their district. This week, the people of New Jersey and Florida could have been a step closer to getting the judges they so desperately need, but, instead, their wait for justice is only further delayed.


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As was recently promised, I have an update to an old tried and true script for calculating the size of an object.
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Extended Events Removed from 2016
SQL Server 2016 is on the horizon. We have a few CTP versions already released for download, allowing people to become more and more familiar with the product.
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At long last the wait is over. After much blood, sweat and more blood and sweat, the next edition of the SQL Server Recipes book is finished.
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One of my pet-peeves (and consequently frequent topic of discussion) is finding database settings (or any setting that has changed) without knowing about it. Worse yet is finding that the change has occurred and nobody claims to have any knowledge of it or having done the deed.
This happened again… Read more
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New Extended Events for 2016
As we begin to get a grasp of all that is available with SQL Server 2016 and all of the new features, it is a great idea to see what else has been made available to us in order to help support and troubleshoot these new features. With that, it… Read more
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Database Drops in SQL 2012
In the previous article on this topic (which can be read here), I discussed the problem of having a database get dropped and the need to find out who dropped the database and when they dropped it. In that article, I demonstrated how the information (at least some of it)… Read more
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SQL Cruise Mediterranean+
This is a post that is looooong overdue. I have intended to write some of this at least since the first SQL Cruise I attended back in 2013 (in the Caribbean). Now with three Cruises under the belt and plenty of awesome experiences, it is high time to follow through… Read more
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Reading Extended Event File Session Data
Using Extended Events to trap/trace information allows the trapping of that information to various targets. One of the targets I will frequently tell people to use is the file target. The reasoning for this is the opportunity this affords to be able to review the output at a later time… Read more
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Posted in SQL RNNR on 21 June 2015
Execution Plans in Extended Events
Extended Events is a wonderful tool. Execution Plans are also some wonderful things – or are a wonderful tool as well. Both of these tools are fantastic for troubleshooting. Combined, they can potentially be even better.
Or, they could just cause some hair loss and be a fairly complicated pain… Read more
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Posted in SQL RNNR on 17 June 2015
Adventures with NOLOCK
Some of the beauty of being a database professional is the opportunity to deal with our friend NOLOCK. For one reason or another this query directive (yes I am calling it a directive* and not a hint) is loved and idolized by vendors, applications, developers, and upper management alike. The… Read more
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Posted in SQL RNNR on 15 June 2015
Extended Events, Birkenstocks and SQL Server
I bring you yet another installment in the monthly meme called T-SQL Tuesday. This is the 67th edition, and this time we have been given the opportunity to talk about something I really enjoy – Extended Events.
Props to Jes Borland (blog | twitter) for picking such an… Read more
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Posted in SQL RNNR on 10 June 2015
Database In Recovery Update
Many moons ago, I published a post that contained a script to aid in easing the anxiety that comes when a database is "In Recovery". When I pulled that script out to try and use it on a SQL 2012 box, I got a nasty error. Thanks to that nasty… Read more
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Posted in SQL RNNR on 18 May 2015
Monitoring SQL Server
Welcome to the fabulous world of blog parties, SQL Server and what has been the longest running SQL Server related meme in the blogosphere – TSQLTuesday.
This month we are hosted by Catherine Wilhemsen (blog | twitter) from Norway. And interestingly, Catherine has asked for us to talk… Read more
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Posted in SQL RNNR on 12 May 2015
Extended Events and Data Types
Today is another one of those installments in the long-running TSQL Party held monthly (a.k.a TSQL2SDAY).
This month we have an open invitation from Mike Donnelly (blog | twitter), asking us to talk about something new we have learned and then to teach about it. You can read… Read more
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Ahead of President Obama's visit to Asia, earlier this week, the Chinese central bank issued a report signalling its intention to perhaps consider allowing a more flexible exchange rate regime come into force.
In one way or another, various entities from the U.S to the IMF have criticised the Chinese' managed exchange rate, which they had relaxed in 2005, but have since reverted to in 2008.
The argument is that the yuan is kept significantly below its true value via strong intervention in the currency markets by the Chinese central bank. (China claims it manages the yuan against a basket of currencies, but if such a basket exists, the dollar is the heaviest component). Since an undervalued exchange rate improves the relative price competitiveness of Chinese goods, this then promotes Chinese exports and discourages American exports. This causes a significant trade deficit and, as the critics argue, is a primary cause of the global trade imbalances that exist today.
The point is made here in the Guardian that:
"With respect to the Chinese holdings of dollar-denominated assets, China is holding a lot of longer-term US government bonds, such as US 10-year Treasuries. If the Chinese government were to sell off a lot of these, it would drive up long-term interest rates in the US. Since our mortgage rates and other long-term lending rates tend to move with long-term Treasuries, this could obviously have a negative impact on the US economy."
But this article also highlights why this may not be a big problem.
If interest rates were allowed to rise:
"This will have some negative impact on growth, but there will also be a very positive side from China's decision to stop buying dollars. The dollar would fall in value against China's currency. This would make Chinese goods more expensive in the United States, leading US consumers to purchases fewer imports from China and more domestically produced goods. A lower-valued dollar would also make our exports cheaper in China. That would allow us to export more to China. The net effect would be an improvement in our trade balance, bringing back some of the 5.5 million jobs that we've lost in manufacturing over the last decade."
I imagine a lot of bets are being placed in the markets this week on what will be the outcome of the Obama trip and whether China will indeed revalue the RMB in some way. Watch this space!
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Mr. Gerry Rice, Director of Communications at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made the following statement today regarding Greece's financial obligations to the IMF due today: "I confirm that the SDR 1.2 billion repayment (about EUR 1.5 billion) due by Greece to the IMF today has not been received. We …Read More »
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Ex-IMF boss arrested for tax evasion and money laundering
Rodrigo Rato, who led the International Monetary Fund from 2004-2007, was arrested in Spain last night over allegations of tax evasion and money laundering. An influential figure in Spanish banking and politics, Rato was the predecessor of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan, who left office under a cloud of legal troubles …Read More »
Central banking elite met today behind closed doors
From Filip Karinja, for Birch Gold Group Today the financial heavyweights in the world of finance met behind closed doors to discuss the future of the global economic system. Held in Washington, the meeting was titled, 'Gold, renminbi and the multicurrency reserve system'. Co-hosted by the World Gold Council, the purpose of the …Read More »
Greece plans return to drachma and nationalization of banks
Greece is drawing up drastic plans to nationalise the country's banking system and introduce a parallel currency to pay bills unless the eurozone takes steps to defuse the simmering crisis and soften its demands. Sources close to the ruling Syriza party said the government is determined to keep public services …Read More »
China moves one step closer to replacing the dollar
From Filip Karinja, for Birch Gold Group The rise of China on the global economic stage got another boost this week. While discussing the potential that the Chinese renminbi (also known as the yuan) will be added to the IMF's Special Drawing Right (SDR) basket of currencies, Christine Lagarde, the chief of the …Read More »
Treasury Secretary urges IMF and World Bank to remain tools of US foreign policy
For every dollar the US spends in the IMF, four dollars are leveraged from other members, the Treasury secretary told Congress, urging lawmakers to approve a reform bill or risk losing "international credibility and influence." Facing the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew testified as …Read More »
Ukraine to receive $17.5b bailout package from the IMF
The International Monetary Fund and the Ukrainian government agreed on a $17.5 billion financial bailout package for Kiev, but the move is yet to be approved by the IMF Board. "I'm glad that the talks on are now over. We have reached a preliminary agreement on disbursing $17.5 billion for Ukraine. It's a four-year program," the Fund's managing …Read More »
Ukraine's new economic development minister admits Ukraine is bankrupt
Ukraine is 'in fact bankrupt' says the new Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius. He advises that the government shouldn't interfere in how businesses are run if it wants to get the economy out of trouble. "Businessmen ask for one thing – they do not ask the government …Read More »
IMF: China overtakes US as world's largest economy
Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world's largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund. Chris Giles at the Financial Times flagged up the change. He also alerted us back in April this year that it was all about to happen. Basically, the method used by the IMF …Read More »
IMF warns global economy is slowing
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has warned that the global economy could be sinking into a prolonged period of "mediocre" growth which could endanger efforts to bring down unemployment worldwide. Lagarde said on Thursday that the world's economy has weakened in the past six months, despite the efforts of leading central …Read More »


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Summer in Chicago is awesome and our location couldn't have been better. We spent the weekend walking the lake front, through Grant Park, Millennium Park, and the famous Magnificent Mile. We had a lake front room with a spectacular view. It was
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Upscale and Friendly Staff!
Right from the time we arrived we were greeted with very friendly staff. The decor in the lobby and the room was very upscale. Our room was clean and had an incredible view of lake Michigan and Navy Pier. The down side was that the bathroom had
a sliding door that had a gap in it as well as a window in the bathroom wall facing the living area that only had wood shutters on it. This was not very private when sharing a room with 3 other people! The pool was kind of small and had no hot tub. the Bliss spa had great services although they were sort of pricey for what you got. Overall a great experience!!
There are a few great restaurants a few blocks west for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They offer really great prices and excellent food and serving sizes!
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Hotel W Chicago
the first girl that gave us our room keys was very friendly, like you would expect from a "nicer" hotel. the rooms were smaller than i thought, i specified i wanted a king, but got 2 twin beds. when i called to see what happened they said the
hotel was full and to try again the next day, then they hung up. no "i apologize for the inconvenience" "i will see what i can do" "i am very sorry, but i will let you know as soon as there is a king available" and even when i went up to the concierge (two days later) the lady had her chin in the palm of her hand leaning against the computer like she was falling asleep... when i walked up she looked at me without moving her head, just her eyes and she had a "what do you want" attitude. she was 1 out of 3 concierge ladies i would describe as trying to help instead of just kind of a whatever attitude. the two younger guys were very nice and very friendly and helpful and a nice break to the service i had been having.
walls were pretty thin (its an old days inn) . maybe it was a bad weekend to be there but i was VERY disappointed with customer service. they DID make good mojitos though.
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Expensive but is it worth it ?
It is an expensive hotel with a lake view but the bathrooms are small, calcium stains in the sink an d no hot water to take a shower. Wow, that really surprised me. When I called in to confirm the reservation, they told me that I have two rooms
booked? But cleared the mistake after couple of calls. I still could not believe the stains in the bathroom and no hot water. I will never go back to this hotel or recommend it to anyone.
A pretty decent place to stay
Had a nice time at the hotel for the most part. The room was really nice and very clean. The Acura program was great for complimentary one-way rides, but wasn't very well advertised.
The one thing I would say is to call ahead and make sure that
the W isn't hosting any parties that weekend. We were there over Halloween weekend and there were people yelling outside of our hotel room until almost 3:30 in the morning, with no one from the hotel managing the noise. It was not restful at all.
The hotel offers free one-way rides to anywhere within a 5 mile radius through a program with Acura. Just make sure to make reservations and know about the operating hours.
This hotel stinks, not worth the price
My boyfriend and I stayed at this hotel because its close to Navy Pier, where we were taking an Odyssey cruise for his bday. The room was on the 16th floor with no view, just a beige wall in front of the window. But they rant and raved about
their spectacular views! Yeah right, what a laugh and a half. Now granted, it was halloween night, but it was so noisy. The walls are PAPER THIN! We could hear everything the people next door were saying, on both sides. Someone was playing loud music above our floor and we could hear the bass through our pillow. I had one of the worst nights in a hotel I have ever, which is really sad, since I've stayed at hotels all over Europe (where customer service is not that great). We called the desk twice and they said both times, "we'll send up hotel security." Nothing ever happened. They didn't care. We will never recommend or stay in a W or related hotels again. For $237 total it was a true disappointment to say the least. We would have had better luck on a park bench.
very over priced
food and drinks were very over priced.
check in lines were very long with few people available to assist.
Not enough elevators.
Many reasonably priced resturants within walking distance.
The Best Way To Spend the Night
We came into town for a show, and the hotel was like home for the night. Service was great, the room was nice, location was great. The only thing I didn't like was that I thought we were getting a room with one king bed, but we got two double beds
instead (I checked my Orbitz confirmation afterward and saw that it didn't really specify).
Navy Pier is right across the street.
air and water show vacation
Wow...we were right on Lake Shore Drive across the street from the air and water show. Thousands of people lined the streets and beaches for this fantastic event. It was fun just being part of it all and knowing we did not have to make a long
trek home at the end of the day. We could have even seen the show from our room. A perfect weekend at the perfect hotel.
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hotel was very funky and modern. great lobby, and great rooms with good view.
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Good view, Small rooms
Everything was great, but the rooms were smaller than I expected. The dinning was a Five Star rating. Over all the hotel location was great, just min. to the Navy Peir.
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Luziania (Agenzia Fides) - "The identity of Cimi is the alliance with indigenous peoples, so that they do not lose their identity": said the President of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), the Bishop of the Prelature of Xingu ( PA), His Exc. Mgr. Erwin Krautler during the opening Mass of the Congress, which celebrates 40 years of the organization, in Luziânia (GO), Brazil. The Congress which started on Tuesday 20, brings together 250 people from across the country, to address the theme "Roots, Identity, Mission," recalling the history of CIMI, an organization of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB). According to Mgr. Erwin, the worst thing that can happen to a nation is lose its identity, for this reason in its 40 years of existence, CIMI has helped indigenous peoples to preserve their identity. The President added that, in this period, CIMI has learned a lot from the natives: "Gone are the days when we worked in favor of indigenous peoples, without including them in our journey. They are not the object of our love, but the protagonists of their own history, and we are their ally."
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The language of the leaked report - the first since Yukiya Amano replaced Mohamed El Baradei as head of the IAEA in December - appeared to be more critical of Iran's government than those compiled by his predecessor.
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Western countries and Israel have long accused Iran of working covertly to develop nuclear weapons, despite Iranian objections to the contrary and a 2007 US intelligence assessment that said Tehran appeared to have suspended such work five years earlier.A spokesman for Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said the report "confirms our great concerns".Bernard Valero, a French foreign ministry spokesman, said: "This report confirms precisely the very serious concerns of the international community [over Iran's nuclear programme].
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A spokesman for Britain's foreign ministry said: "The IAEA report confirms our fears that Iran is acting duplicitously and illegally." Iran denialAli Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the IAEA, dismissed the report as "baseless" and said the documents cited in the report were "fabricated and thus do not have any validity".
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Soltanieh repeated Tehran's stance that Iran's nuclear programme is a peaceful one and said that this issue had been pointed out in the report.
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Soltanieh said: "Repeated requests by the IAEA for further inspection are not acceptable for us.
"Iran will neither co-operate beyond the IAEA safeguards nor will it carry out demands of the United Nations resolutions."
He said Tehran's reasons for not doing so are that "Iran considers these resolutions to be contrary to international law".
While visiting Gulf states Saudi Arabia and Qatar earlier in thee week, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said Iran was heading towards a "military dictatorship" and warned it posed an international threat.
Russia, which has in past defended Iran's right to nuclear technology, has also signalled its willingness to accept a new round of sanctions if the Iranian government does not "more actively and broadly co-operate with the IAEA and other countries".
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He plays the trumpet, loves football and has a well-known fondness for pink hoodies. Next week, University of Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy takes over from Richard Dawkins as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Is he bothered by comparisons with his fearsome predecessor? And what will his message be? Paul Parsons went to find out
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